Federal Court Delays EEOC’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Abortion Accommodation in Louisiana, Mississippi
On June 17, 2024, a federal court in Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement in Louisiana and Mississippi of the portion of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) final rule interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) to require employers to provide abortion-related accommodations. The ruling was issued just hours before the EEOC’s final rule took effect on June 18, 2024, and just days after a separate federal court in Arkansas rejected a bid by seventeen other states for a similar preliminary injunction, finding those states lacked standing.
